"Dramatic Pink"
"Dramatic Pink" is created from soft pastel on paper. A flamingo stands in perfect profile against a stark black void, its slender neck curved into a graceful S-shape like a calligrapher’s flourish. The bird’s plumage blooms in soft gradients of peach and blush pink, each feather meticulously rendered to show the delicate transition from palest shell-pink at the shoulders to deeper coral at the wingtips. Its beak, a striking contrast in muted yellow and black, angles downward with quiet poise, while one spindly leg lifts slightly, frozen mid-step.
The absence of any environment heightens the flamingo’s surreal beauty and it becomes both creature and sculpture, floating in darkness. The artist’s control of light makes the bird appear softly luminous, as if backlit by some unseen sun.
~ Scherell Art